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Das Schweizer Parlament modernisiert das Schuldbetreibungssystem und führt zwei neue Schuldenrestrukturierungsverfahren für Privatpersonen ein

Advestra's legal team, including Dr. Roger Bischof, Prof. Dr. Rashid Bahar, Andreas Hinsen, and Dr. Thomas U. Reutter, provides insights on recent Swiss financial regulatory developments.

Switzerland Finance

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Advestra AG

Die Einziehung Nach Art. 35 FINMAG

This article examines the administrative confiscation mechanism under Article 35 FINMAG, analyzing its legal nature, material requirements, and practical application after 16 years of Swiss financial market supervision. The authors explore critical questions surrounding profit calculation, the scope of deductible expenses, and whether the current enforcement toolkit adequately deters supervisory law violations.

Switzerland Finance

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Pestalozzi Attorneys at Law

Swiss Federal Supreme Court Rules That No Shareholder Approval Is Required For Asset Sales During A Composition Moratorium

Advestra's legal team, including Dr. Roger Bischof, Prof. Dr. Rashid Bahar, Andreas Hinsen, and Dr. Thomas U. Reutter, provides insights into recent Swiss regulatory developments. The firm examines the Federal Council's consultation on the Investment Screening Ordinance and FINMA's newly published guidance addressing risks associated with product usage in discretionary portfolio management.

Switzerland Finance

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Advestra AG

Das Schweizer Bundesgericht urteilt, dass Vermögensverkäufe während einer Nachlassstundung keiner Genehmigung durch die Aktionäre bedürfen

Advestra's legal team, including Dr. Roger Bischof, Prof. Dr. Rashid Bahar, Andreas Hinsen, and Dr. Thomas U. Reutter, provides insights on recent Swiss regulatory developments. The firm covers topics ranging from investment screening ordinances to FINMA guidance on discretionary asset management risks.

Switzerland Finance

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Advestra AG

EU Fund Managers - Marketing Private Funds To Swiss Investors: Mind The Swiss Marketing Rules

Switzerland Finance

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Loyens & Loeff

Deal-Ticker: Spitäler Schaffhausen Secures CHF 160 Million Financing For Development

Switzerland Finance

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Kellerhals Carrard

Enforcement Is Where Legal Finance Is Truly Tested

Switzerland Finance

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Omni Bridgeway

Stock Market Or Private Capital? How Public And Private Markets Are Shifting, And What It Means For Your Next Deal

Switzerland Finance

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LINDEMANNLAW

In Brief: Swiss Federal Tribunal Backs Bank On Execution-Only Retrocessions

Switzerland Finance

SKANDAMIS AVOCATS

Stricter Capital Rules For UBS Miss The Real Issue

Worldwide Finance

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LINDEMANNLAW

New Rules For Swiss Banks Serving EU Customers

Switzerland Finance

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Loyens & Loeff

Cloud Or On-premise? Four Factors For Payments Providers To Consider

Switzerland Finance

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AlixPartners

Geldmarkt-Apéro der Schweizerischen Nationalbank

Switzerland Finance

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Kellerhals Carrard

Too-big-to-fail Reforms: Federal Council Adopts Dispatch And Amends The Capital Adequacy Ordinance

Switzerland Finance

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Advestra AG

CONVINUS Global Mobility Alert 26.2026

Worldwide Immigration

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CONVINUS

A Mere Suspicion Can Ruin A Reputation (Video)

Switzerland Litigation

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LINDEMANNLAW

The Swiss Disruption Landscape In 2026: Manufacturing

Switzerland Strategy

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AlixPartners

Counting Schengen Days For Switzerland: How 90/180 Overstays Still Happen

Switzerland Immigration

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Richmond Chambers Immigration Barristers

What The ICC’s 2025 Statistics Tell Us About The Direction Of International Arbitration

Switzerland Litigation

Aceris Law

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Capital Adequacy/BASEL

Too-big-to-fail Reforms: Federal Council Adopts Dispatch And Amends The Capital Adequacy Ordinance

Switzerland's Federal Council has adopted a dispatch to revise the Federal Act on Banks and Saving Banks, requiring systemically important banks like UBS to fully back foreign subsidiary participations...

Switzerland Finance

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Advestra AG

ESG Desk Newsletter: Avoiding Climate-washing, Key Points For Practice

Statements such as "CO₂-neutral", "net-zero" or "sustainable" are increasingly under scrutiny. With the recent implementation guidance published by the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment...

Switzerland Commercial

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Kellerhals Carrard

Five × Five: Middle East Developments Driving Capital Reallocation Toward Stable Jurisdictions

The escalating conflict in the Middle East — triggered by U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran and subsequent Iranian attacks on Gulf states in early March 2026 — has set in motion...

Switzerland Wealth Mgt

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LINDEMANNLAW

Registration Procedures After Relocation From Abroad: Differences Between EU / EFTA And Third-Country Nationals In Zurich, Basel, And Zug

Switzerland Immigration

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CONVINUS

Das Risiko der faktischen Organschaft bei beaufsichtigten Finanzinstituten

Switzerland Finance

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Kellerhals Carrard

Climate And Environmental Risks Of Financial Institutions – The New EU And Swiss Supervisory Focus

European Union Finance

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Loyens & Loeff

Payroll Set-up: Challenges With Short-term Project Assignments

Switzerland Employment

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CONVINUS

New Licences For Switzerland's Financial Market – Overview By KC

Switzerland Finance

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Kellerhals Carrard

Switzerland Finance

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Pestalozzi Attorneys at Law

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Debt Capital Markets

NEWSLETTER Du 12 Mai Au 23 Mai 2025 | N° 105

Le Tribunal fédéral n'a pas suivi ce raisonnement.

Switzerland Criminal

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Monfrini Bitton Klein

Newsletter Du 22 Au 26 Juillet 2024 | N° 84

Qualité pour recourir refusée au père du fœtus dont la grossesse de la mère a été interrompue...

Switzerland Criminal

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Monfrini Bitton Klein

Newsletter Du 15 Au 19 Juillet 2024 | N° 83

La présente Newsletter de Monfrini Bitton Klein vise à offrir, de manière hebdomadaire, un tour d'horizon de la jurisprudence rendue par le Tribunal fédéral dans les principaux domaines d'activité de l'Etude...

Switzerland Criminal

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Monfrini Bitton Klein

Newsletter Du 6 Mai Au 10 Mai 2024 | N° 74

Switzerland Criminal

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Monfrini Bitton Klein

Newsletter Du 11 Au 22 Décembre 2023 | N° 59

Switzerland Finance

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Monfrini Bitton Klein

Deal-Ticker: Spitäler Schaffhausen Secures CHF 160 Million Financing For Development

Switzerland Finance

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Kellerhals Carrard

Tax In Distressed Situations Switzerland

Switzerland Tax

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Loyens & Loeff

Private Credit's Rise And The Expanding Role Of Debt Advisory

Switzerland Finance

GGI Global Alliance

The Swiss Passporting Regimefor Foreign Prospectuses

Switzerland Commercial

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Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd

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Charges, Mortgages, Indemnities

NEWSLETTER Du 9 Au 20 Juin 2025 | N° 107

La présente Newsletter de Monfrini Bitton Klein vise à offrir, de manière hebdomadaire, un tour d'horizon de la jurisprudence rendue par le Tribunal fédéral dans les principaux domaines d'activité de l'Etude, soit le droit pénal économique et le recouvrement d'actifs (asset recovery).

Switzerland Criminal

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Monfrini Bitton Klein

Legislative And Regulatory Updates For 2026

The Bern Financial Services Agreement (BFSA) between Switzerland and the United Kingdom is scheduled to enter into force on 1 January 2026 and establish...

Switzerland Finance

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Borel & Barbey

FINMA Risk Monitor 2025: FINMA Flags Nine Principal Risks, Among Which AML Risks And Outsourcing Risks

FINMA published its Risk Monitor 2025 on 17 November 2025 (Risk Monitor), in which it identifies the following nine principal risks as "high": (i) risks in connection with real estate and mortgages...

Switzerland Finance

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Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd

Private Debt In Switzerland – Practitioners' Perspective | Key Considerations And Practical Solutions

Switzerland Finance

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Borel & Barbey

Fixed-rate Mortgages And Early Termination

Switzerland Finance

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Bär & Karrer

Land Register Law: Trust With Reservation – What You Need To Know

Switzerland Real Estate

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LINDEMANNLAW

Lending & Secured Finance 2024

Switzerland Insolvency

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Bär & Karrer

Die Auswirkung der Erhöhung des Referenzzinssatzes und der Teuerung auf den Mietzins

Switzerland Real Estate

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Bär & Karrer

Swiss Marketplace Lending Report 2021: Key Findings

Switzerland Finance

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TMF Group BV

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Financial Services

Das Schweizer Parlament modernisiert das Schuldbetreibungssystem und führt zwei neue Schuldenrestrukturierungsverfahren für Privatpersonen ein

Advestra's legal team, including Dr. Roger Bischof, Prof. Dr. Rashid Bahar, Andreas Hinsen, and Dr. Thomas U. Reutter, provides insights on recent Swiss financial regulatory developments.

Switzerland Finance

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Advestra AG

Control, Responsibility And Governance Of Autonomous AI Agents In Swiss Fintech

As autonomous AI agents increasingly perform decision-making functions within financial institutions, Swiss fintechs must confront fundamental questions of control, accountability and governance. Existing regulatory obligations remain fully applicable: autonomy in the machine does not displace responsibility in the firm. The task is to build oversight frameworks that keep pace with technological independence rather than yield to it.

Switzerland Technology

RUGGLE Partner

Die Einziehung Nach Art. 35 FINMAG

This article examines the administrative confiscation mechanism under Article 35 FINMAG, analyzing its legal nature, material requirements, and practical application after 16 years of Swiss financial market supervision. The authors explore critical questions surrounding profit calculation, the scope of deductible expenses, and whether the current enforcement toolkit adequately deters supervisory law violations.

Switzerland Finance

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Pestalozzi Attorneys at Law

Swiss Federal Supreme Court Rules That No Shareholder Approval Is Required For Asset Sales During A Composition Moratorium

Switzerland Finance

AA

Advestra AG

Das Schweizer Bundesgericht urteilt, dass Vermögensverkäufe während einer Nachlassstundung keiner Genehmigung durch die Aktionäre bedürfen

Switzerland Finance

AA

Advestra AG

EU Fund Managers - Marketing Private Funds To Swiss Investors: Mind The Swiss Marketing Rules

Switzerland Finance

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Loyens & Loeff

FINMA Guidance 04/2026: Further Precision On AML Risk Analysis

Switzerland Government

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Bär & Karrer

ESG In Switzerland: Regulatory Developments And Practical Implications

Switzerland Commercial

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Loyens & Loeff

Deal-Ticker: Spitäler Schaffhausen Secures CHF 160 Million Financing For Development

Switzerland Finance

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Kellerhals Carrard

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Credit Suisse AT1 Bonds: Federal Supreme Court To Review FINMA Write-Off (Video)

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LINDEMANNLAW

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